Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-01-07
IN THE OZARK REGION.
Where Deer. Bear. Panther, Wild
Turkeys Quail aud Rabbits Thrive.


Turkeys, Quail aud Rabbits Thrive.
al wish that some Of you fellows who like
TO talk about the sport you have hunting here
in the cold east could just pack up your
traps about now and go back with me 10
country that a chap can live in with pleas
ure AMI comfort while the gales and snow
and frost Of this Atlantic climate are getting
their work in to the best kind of advan-
tage," said Chip Macguire of Spring
field, Mo. the other night. Game is al
ways plenty in southern Missouri, said he,
but this year it seams 10 have outdone it
self in abundance. | came over the old
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf railroad
and although that WAS early in the season
for the birds to he making themselves con-
spicuous III bet that | counted a hundred
fucks of wild turkeys, and there wasn't
flock out Of which | couldn't have shot one
or more OF the splendid birds from my win
dow in the car The railroad in one place
runs on treStles over a swamp for several
miles, and in the extensive ponds and bayous
OF that wild stretch of country thousands
upon thousands of wild ducks and geese of
all varieties were feeding, some OF the water
being covered for acres with the fowl, until
their groups looked like islands in the lakes
DesA IpNl >'f'tlttNl 10 pS - Nlseh ~ tut hol-S
Of the trains that did not see one move its
position through being startled by the cars
i'll all that distance.
The day before left Springfield saw
a bushwhscker come into town with a mule
team load Of deer carcasses of the finest kind
| bought one simply to obtain the magnif-
cent head and sntlers and all paid for the
whole business WAS 81 p. There were at
AgAN Al. L. ,,,,l4 I,l
in the purchase. You could not get that
head and these horns here for less than Sl5.
Among the other large game reported plenty
and waiting for the hunter Is bear. This
gentle creature more particularf. effects
the jungles and swamps Of northes Arkan-
sas, and If an unsusPecting sportsman Is
going into these parts he will have to keep
his ewes skinned TO find thoroughfares un-
obStructeI by bruin. The lynx, and now
and then that relic Of the days when the
country belonged to two-legged as well as
four footed stvages, the American panther,
still hold q land tenure in that garden
spot of the southwest, and am told, greet
visitors after the manner Of their kind.
never daily with game of this kind, but l
know men who do, aud what they say may
be depended on.
- went Oul luT idDblI NUM- u lie" udls
before / left home, and got tired OF trip
ping over them That is no exaggeration,
for ! give you my word that they jumped
out from every bunch of brush and leaves
that lay in your path. After bagging all
| could carry l went to shooting quail for
friend who was with me 10 bring back home
TheSe birds actually paid no attention to
the gun at all. but the focks shot into
kept right on feeding as if nothing had hap
pened, and rather objected to my picking up
the ones had shot We speak of gray and
black squirrels out there as YOU might refer
to sparrowS here, for they take possession
of towns and villages in about the same way
The beauty of il all is that the later the
season grows the better the weather gets
and any Of YOU fellows can come out there
New Years and strike il right, and spend
the remainder of the winter in clover You
won't be apt TO see much snow. The Ozark
region Is the greatest country l know Of
and the water out there is immense. If
you want to have a good hunt come out
and s,e me, and leave all your medicine at
home New York Sun.